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Specific appropriations.States to the seat of government one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents.

For paying the bounties which may become payable to the owners of private armed vessels, in conformity with the ninth section ofAct of June 26, 1812, ch. 107. the act of the twenty-sixth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, ten thousand dollars.

Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.For making the road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, to be repaid out of the five per cent. fund reserved for that purpose, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.

For pensions to the widows or children of officers and soldiers killed in the campaign of one thousand eight hundred and eleven, on the Wabash, from the seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, five thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, fifteen thousand dollars.

For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of France and Denmark, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars,Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1813.

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March 3, 1813.

Chap. LX.An Act altering the time for holding the District Court in the District of Maine.

District Court of Maine.
Act of November 28, 1811, ch. 2.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the session of the district court for the district of Maine, by law appointed to be holden at Wiscasset on the first Tuesday in March, shall, from and after the first day of April next, be holden at Wiscasset on the last Tuesday of February annually, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 3, 1813.

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March 3, 1813.

Chap. LXI.An Act vesting in the President of the United States the power of retaliation.

The President may cause retaliation to be made.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all and every case, wherein, during the present war between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any violations of the laws and usages of war, among civilized nations, shall be or have been done and perpetrated by those acting under authority of the British government, on any of the citizens of the United States or persons in the land or naval service of the United States, the President of the